260 C. DR Canbollk: 



129. Pci)croniia qiiadrifolia Kunth, ^labra, foliis quaternis, bre- 

 vissime petiolatis, e basi cimeata obovatis, apice omarginatis, subcoria- 

 ceis, inconspicue 3-nerviis; spicisterminalibussolitariisdensiflorislongiiis- 

 cule pediinculatis, ipsis folia 2 3-plo superantibus, bractea orbiculata 

 centro breviter pedicellata; ovario siibimmerso ovato superne atteiiuato 

 et summo apice stigraatifero; bacca oblonge -ovata emersa, basi pseudo- 

 cupulari, apice mucronata. 



Peperoynia quadrifolia Kunth in H. B. K. Nov. Ge7i. I (1815) 

 p. 69 (hb. Willd. n. 754!); Miq.f Syst. p. 159; Griseh. Fl. W. Ind. p.l68; 

 C. DC. Prodr. XVI, 1 p. 454 (excl. sijn. Hook. fl. exot.); Hensch. Et. 

 p. 33 t. 4 fig. 6 (bacca); Dahlst.f Stiid. p. 185 t. 3 fig. 17. 



Piper quadrifoliiim L. Sp. II ed. I (1762) p. 43; Aiibl. Hist. 

 Ouian. I p. 21; Swartz Obs. p. 22. 



Peperomia alpina Mart. et Oal. in Bull. Brux. X, 2 (1843) p. 19, 

 non . Dietr. 



Piper foliis quaternis Plum. Am. ed. Burm. (1760) p. 238 t. 242 



fig. 3. 



Herba inferne e nodis radicans, ramulis erectis 10 12 cm. longis 

 sulcatis, IV2 mm. crassis. Limbi in sicco subpellucidi rigidi, ad IV2 cm. 

 longi et ad 7 mm. lati; petioli ad 2 mm. longi. Pedunculi fere 2 cm. longi. 



Hab. in Jamaica: Macfadyen, prope Clydesdale: W. Harris n.7097, 

 prope Cinchona: Fawcett n. 8162; Sto. Domingo prope Jarabacoa ad 

 truncos arborum juxta flamen Yaqui alt. 550 m.: Eggers n. 2004; Por- 

 torico prope Yauco: Garber n. 113, prope Maricao in convalli fluminis 

 superioris ad silvarum arbores, prope Adjuntas ad arbores vetustas in 

 silvula Coff. arab. ad Junco: Sintenis n.468, 4697; praeterea Mexico, 

 Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peruvia (vide C. DC. 1. c. et in 

 Denn. Sm. Enum. part IV p. 136, in Bull. h. Boiss. VI p. 521). 



130. Peperomia papulosa Dabist, foliis ternis quaternis, petio- 

 latis, ellipticis, basi acutis, apice obtusis, inconspicue 5-nerviis, utrin- 

 que (praesertim in foliis juvenilibus) minutissime papilloso-puberulis; 

 spicis terminalibus longe pedunculatis, pedunculos aequantibas, folia 

 pluries superantibus, densifloris filiformibus, bractea rotundata centro 

 pedicellata; bacca rhachis processu pedicellata, ovata, sub apice contracta 

 et oblique stigmatifera. 



Peperomia papulosa Dahlst.f Stud. (1900) p. 170. 



Herba repens, e nodis radicans, ramulis minutissime papilloso-pube- 

 rulis, spiciferis cum spica circiter 8 cm. longis, 1 mm. crassis. Limbi in 

 sicco membranacei, subpellucidi, IV2 cm. longi, 1 cm. lati; petioli ad 3 mm. 

 longi. Pedunculi ad 8 cm. longi. 



Hab. in Cuba in Loma del Jagey, 700 ni. alt. in arboribus mortuis 



repens: Eggers n. 5289 (in b. Krag et Urb., non 5829 ut in Dabist. 1. c). 



